Nail.



UNTTED STATES PATENT oEErcE.

GU'STAV A. NOETZEL AND WILLIAM PAUL FER-RIS, OF .WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, -AAS .-'SIGNORS TO PRECISION METAL XVORKERS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

NAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led October 28.*1 1912, Serial No. 728,248. Renewed July 13, 1914.` Serial No. 850,802.4

'/'0 all who/11 it may concern:

lle it known that we, GUs'rAv A. NOETZEL and "[LLMM P. Fnnms, both citizens of the United States, and residents of W'aukeshii, in the county of 'Waukesha land State of llisconsin, have invented certain new structures, such as scaffolding, false-work,

conereteforms, crating and boxing, and various other Woodwork designed to be takenv apart, the spacing-devices serving to obviate the splitting of the wood into which the nailsl are driven and tolfaeilitate the withdrawal of said nails without detriment to said wood, as Well as to effect a savingI in time, labor and material.

Figure' l of the drawings represents :1- partlysectional side elex-'ationof an ordinary wire nail and a spacing-device of novel construction thereon. Fig. 2, a horizontal section on the plane indicated by line 2 2 in Fig. 1,'nnd Fig. 3, n view similar to Fig. l, partly in sect-ion and illustrating a frag ment of the nail end the spncing-rleviee thereon having s lateral weakened extension or lip thereof bent upward,

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 4

indicates nn ordinary Wire nail that may be of any suitable gage, und loose on the nail, in opposition to the head 4 thereof, is a spacing device herein shown :1s-e Washer 5 having a preferably tapered outer sleeveextension 5', and the washer is provided with a lateral extension 5. constituting a lip normally on the plane of the inner end of said wusher, this lip being preferably of diminished width approximately midway of its length to wenken the same, as shown in F ig. 2 whereby it: may be readily bent outward, as shown in Fig. 43. The

peculiar preferred construction of the lati,

eral lip-extension 5" -'of the wsher also serves to provide the lip with vshoulders 5"'.

The spacing-device on the' nail lil'its the'. extent to which said nail may be driven into wooden material and thus s littin'g of this material, incidental to nailrivingg'is pre- Patented Nov.`17,p1914.

vented, while at the same time clearance is provided under the neil head to` facilitate the employment of a claw 'for thefwithdrawal of the aforesaid nail. and lateral lip extension thereof may serve in opposition to a claw to prevent marring of the adjacent wood by the claw, andthe lip may be bent outward at an acute angle to the plane of the inner end of said washer to guide the claw under said spacing-device if desired, or said claw may be employed in opposition to the shoulders of thejbent 'up lip-extension of the washer to facilitate pulling of the nail when more than ordinaryv leverage is desirable. i

The dimensions of may be indefinitely varied, and-*fOr Some nailing 'it is within the` scope of our invention, as herein claimed,to omit seidv sleeve and depend uponI the bending .outward o f the lip-extension of said washer to provide for its engagement with a claw. when the- The washer.

the sleeve -and washerA 2. The combination of a nail and a washer thereon having a lateral extension of diminished width 'pproxiniately midway of its length.

3. The combination of a nail and a washer thereon provided with an outer sleeve-extension in opposition to the nail-head and having a laterally extending lip normally on the plane of its inner end..

'4. The combination of la nail and 8. washer thereon provided with an` Outer sleeveex of Wisconsin in the' presence of two wittenslon 1n opposxtlon to the nml-head andv messes.

with a, labera extension of diminished width GUSTAV A. NOETZEL.

approxmatey midway of its length. ULLAM PAUL FERRIS. 5 in tstxnony that we claim the. foregoing Witnessesz we have hereunto set our hands at van- RoEnT L. Hour,

kesha, in thx cunty of Waukesha and State ABA H. CRAIG. 

